By Scott Rose
Yale University produced the notorious gay-basher Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage. Gallagher's contempt for LGBT human beings now extends even to protesting their marriages on the day they are getting married. We might think of Gallagher as the Fred Phelps of Yale.
Or, we might think that Yale right at this moment has a Phelps-like figure right on its faculty. Dr. Paul Amble is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He is also the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Chief Forensic Psychiatrist.
Dr. Amble is frightfully well-connected in professional gay-bashing circles. His sister is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who sometimes gives him "permission" to talk to the media, apparently as a sort of proganda minister for her presidential campaign. In a recent New York Times article, Dr. Amble said that in her ignorance-fueled, militant political gay bashing, Bachmann has simply been doing "what she thought was right."
At present, you will search in vain for any public statement from Dr. Amble reflective of a scientific understanding of homosexuality. Were Dr. Amble only a propagandist for the Bachmann for President campaign, that would be one matter. He is however a key figure at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction. It is urgent and essential that the media be able to report on whether Dr. Amble accepts LGBT human beings and supports their equality. If he does not, then, particularly in light of his public statements in support of his sister's brass-knuckled political gay bashing, it will be absolutely impossible for LGBTers to feel safe around him or to have confidence in his carrying out his job duties without prejudice against them.
It is, furthermore, worrisome that Yale University has on its faculty a psychiatrist who refuses to clarify his understanding of homosexuality and his baseline attitude towards LGBT human beings. This reporter e-mailed him at his Yale address, hoping to learn whether he had a scientific understanding of homosexuality. Turns out, Dr. Amble answers no questions without the Bachmann for President campaign's permission, and the campaign evidently isn't permitting him to comment on whether he has a scientific understanding of homosexuality. URGENT UPDATE: A commenter on an Advocate article alleges that Dr. Amble practices reparative "therapy." This could, or could not be true. Remember that before being caught in a sting, Marcus Bachmann lied about whether his clinic engaged in the fraudulent "treatment."
Yale University President Richard Levin did not respond when asked whether his school endorses or discredits Michele Bachmann's idea that calling homosexuals "gay" comes "from Satan," which she said at the end of a very long lecture at the EdWatch National Education Conference in 2004.
To ask Yale President Richard Levin whether Maggie Gallagher's alma mater has an enlightened view of LGBTers, write to him at Richard.Levin@Yale.Edu To ask Connecticut Department of Mental Health Commissioner Patricia Rehmer whether Dr. Amble has a scientific view of LGBT human beings, write to her at Pat.Rehmer@po.state.ct.us And to request that Dr. Amble go on the record with his attitude towards gay human beings, write to him at Paul.Amble@Yale.Edu
Sounds like Jamila M. Mills, a notorious minority basher who is hoping to have a medical career. These sort of people should not have the health of others in their hands. They are clearly without the fundamental skill of rationalization, therefore are unsuited to the profession.
ReplyDeleteThe very notion that a psychiatrist, hired by a major university for the express purpose of helping young people (many of whom are struggling with the realization that they might be gay), can be so judgemental and unscientific in his approach to homosexuality is completely unacceptable. The sad truth is, many vulnerable young people in his charge would be infinately better served by talking with a wise friend or relative than with this "professional," who would rather sit in judgement than to help them cope. With all his degrees, Mr. Amble lacks what is most necessary for someone in his position, e.g. compassion. Intelligence, sadly, does not always translate to wisdom or kindness.
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